A Green New Deal for South African workers?
Carilee Osborne | zcomm.org | 2020-03-06
COSATU, South Africa's largest trade union federation, has a plan to simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment…
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A new graphic novel tackles climate crisis anxiety in a truly exceptional way
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-03-06
SelfMadeHero, a small independent publisher, released a new title on 5 March. The graphic novel, titled Thoreau and Me, explores our anxieties over the climate crisis and what we should do in the face of them. | Author Cédric Taling explores the issues in an exceptional way. He brings in the spirit of an influential 19th century writer to converse with the protagonist on how to tackle his anxiety and, indeed, the climate crisis itself. | Get back to natur…
thecanary.co/reviews/2020/03/06/a-new-graphic-novel-tackles-climate-crisis-anxiety-in-a-truly-exceptional-way/

Cancer in US Navy Nuclear Powered Ships
Chris Busby | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
In 2011, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 100km off the coast of Japan at the time of the Tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima reactor explosions. It was directed by the US government to ride to the rescue in what was later called Operation Tomodachi (friendship)–to provide assistance to the victims of the floods. What no-one on board was told was that the reactors had exploded and a plume of highly radioactive material was blowing east from the site into the path of the vessel. Of course, when this arrived, all the radiation monitors on the boat started screaming, and the planes…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/06/cancer-in-us-navy-nuclear-powered-ships/

Global Warming on a Rampage
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-06
Global warming is not waiting around for the signatories to the Paris climate accord '15 to go to net zero emissions 2030/50. Sorry, those bold plans are way too little way too late. Already, across the board, the planet is on a hot streak that defies all projections. It's starting to look downright scary! Listen… …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/global-warming-on-a-rampage/

What Now? A Community Response to the Climate Emergency
Peter Melton | indybay.org | 2020-03-06
Inner Light Ministries | 5630 Soquel Dr | Soquel, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/05/18831325.php

Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation Into Federal Reports
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-06
A major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a Department of Interior employee with ties to the Heartland Institute and other fossil-funded denial organizations, to modify federal reports to include misleading information about climate science. | DeSmog has obtained some of the emails cited by The Times in that investigati…
truthout.org/articles/trump-interior-official-pushed-climate-misinformation-into-federal-reports/

Amazon burning in 2019 was bad, but nowhere near as apocalyptic as MSM would have us believe
rt.com | 2020-03-06
Despite a media furor over the widespread burning of Amazon rainforest in 2019, the latest analysis by the ESA's Fire CCI project reveals that the total number of fires in the Amazon was only slightly above the long-term average. | Far from the apocalyptic headlines depicted in the mainstream media frenzy, it appears that the Amazon may not be doomed just yet. While there was a small increase year-on-year between 2018 and 2019, the number of fires in relation to the national average over two decades was only slightly up. | Changes in climate conditions, regulations as well pre-existing deforestation and degrad…
rt.com/news/482523-amazon-burning-2019-average/

From fossil capitalism to energy democracy?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-06
As the 21st Century's second decade opens, the increasingly severe symptoms of climate change comprise a pivot in the struggle for hegemony, globally and within national formations. With the highest per capital carbon emissions among the G20 states, Canada is a climate laggard and, in some respects, a first-world petro-state (Nikiforuk 2010), organized as a […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/06/from-fossil-capitalism-to-energy-democracy/

Fridays For Future Occupies Brussels to Demand Climate Actions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-06
Over 3,400 Europeans marched to support the "Friday for Future" (FFF) movement and demand concrete climate policies and actions in Brussels, Belgium. | RELATED: | Thousands of Children Die Each Year Because of Air Pollution | The demonstration ran through the streets of the Belgian capital until it ended in the Parc du Cinquantenaire, near the European Parliament building. | "Welcome to climate change" and "Green Europe today" were some of the slogans used by the crowd which, a…
telesurenglish.net/news/fridays-for-future-occupies-brussels-to-demand-climate-actions-20200306-0007.html

Circular IT Economy, Carbon-Neutrality 'Vitally Important' for Truly Sustainable Future – Advocate
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-06
As European legislators pass new laws aiming to tackle climate change and environmental damage, tech startups have begun revising their business models, namely by adopting circular economies to cut back on waste in the manufacturing process and promote environmentally-friendly supply chains.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202003061078491828-circular-it-economy-carbon-neutrality-vitally-important-for-truly-sustainable-future—advocate/

Exxon Lobbyists Pushed European Officials to Water Down Green Deal With Carbon Pricing Plan for Vehicles
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-06
Climate lobbying watchdog InfluenceMap revealed Friday that Exxon Mobil met with European Commission officials as they were finalizing the European Green Deal last fall, pushing the commission to take steps to ensure that drivers in Europe will continue driving cars that run on fossil fuels instead of transitioning to electric vehicles. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/exxon_sign_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/03/06/exxon-lobbyists-pushed-european-officials-water-down-green-deal-carbon-pricing-plan?cd-origin=rss

Tropical Forest Shift Raises the Alarm of Climate Scientists
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-05
Both the Amazon and the Congo have helped mitigate the effects of global warming. That may no longer be the case, a new study reveals.
truthdig.com/articles/tropical-forest-shift-raises-the-alarm-of-climate-scientists/

Rebels continue disruptions
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-05
Climate crisis Zebedee ParkesIssue 1256 Australia Extinction Rebellion climate emergencyMarch 5, 2020Extinction Rebellion activists are continuing to cause disruption around Australia.
greenleft.org.au/content/rebels-continue-disruptions

The case for ecosocialism
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-05
Socialism Peter Boyle Pip HinmanIssue 1256 Australia ecosocialism climate crisisMarch 5, 2020If there is one thing the recent unprec…
greenleft.org.au/content/the-case-for-ecosocialism

Minnesota to protest Vice President Pence appearance
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-04
St. Paul, MN – The Anti-War Committee is joining with the Climate Justice Committee to unwelcome Vice President Mike Pence when he comes to Saint Paul, 5 p.m., March 5, at the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront, 11 E Kellogg Boulevard. | The Anti-War Committee has consistently organized against the Trump administration's repeated attempts to use bigotry. The Anti-War Committee's call for the protest includes, among other demands: "Muslims are welcome here! Racist, sexist, anti-gay – Mike Pence go away! No ban, no wall! Amnesty for all!" | CJ McCormick, a member of the Anti-War Committee said, "Wherever Trump…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/4/minnesota-protest-vice-president-pence-appearance

Network News's Climate Disappearing Act–Will 2020 Be Different?
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-03-04
Network News's Climate Disappearing Act–Will 2020 Be Different?
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-journalism-2020-election/

'Quiet Australians' organise for climate action
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-04
Climate crisis Susan PriceIssue 1256 Australia Extinction Rebellion Blacktown City Council ParramattaMarch 4, 2020…
greenleft.org.au/content/quiet-australians-organise-climate-action

Could the climate crisis be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-03-02
There really is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/

How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-27
Sonia Shah is an investigative science journalist and author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond." Her new book is titled "The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move" and will be published in June. She says the climate crisis is making outbreaks of infectious diseases more common, with the destruction of natural animal habitats and the changes in migration bringing humans and animals into ever-closer contact and making new pathogens more likely. Her latest article, published in The Nation, is titled "Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Th…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/27/climate_crisis_coronavirus_infections_disease_outbreaks

Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-02-21
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
fair.org/home/paul-paz-y-mino-saqib-bhatti-beverly-bell-on-environmental-justice-cross-national-solidarity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paul-paz-y-mino-saqib-bhatti-beverly-bell-on-environmental-justice-cross-national-solidarity